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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

worship him More pretious are your soules in his sight then the Phoenix or the Vnicornes fole He hath raised vnto you a seate of mercy whither to haue recourse for remission of sinnes And prepared a table for your refection wherein himselfe is the banquet and feast O howe delectable are thy dainties O Lord howe acceptable are thy holy Altars Much better are the reliques there of then the exquisite cates of princes Much better is it to be an abject in thy houshold then a great man in Kings Courtes The meanest in thy Church is noble the poorest in thy Church is rich Who is able to expresse the magnificence of thy Church or the one halfe of her glory We haue Priestes rightly consecrated and anointed in sacred wise Orderly accomplishing thy dread full misteries in vestments of holynesse and honour Monkes and other Religious persons persisting day and night in prayer With fasting and disciplines afflicting themselues in sackcloath and hayre for the sinnes of the people Vowed Virgins veiled handmaides of thy Christ by like order of life contend for like Crowne And fixing him profoundly in hart whome they haue chosen as celestiall Spouse Endeauour nothing else then to be perfect in his sight and serue him without distraction Vpon the society of thy faithfull legions of Angels attend for their defence Vpon them thy eyes are perpetually open to consider their wants and heare their prayers Who liueth in their vnity is in the communion of Saintes partaker of their assistance and patronage Hath his part in euery good deed and is daylie prayd for throughout the world Who dieth a liuely member of this holy body misticall by prayers of the liuing hath remission of payne Happy art thou O flocke of Peter blessed are all nations subject to his chaire Where sit the judges of the house of Iacob the rodde and scepter of thy Kingdome O Redeemer Thy selfe art a watchman ouer it who neuer sleepest a protector who neuer slumbrest Whosoeuer impugne it shall rotte as they liue their eyes shall sinke and their tongue shall be eaten out They shall perish in thy fury and melt like waxe before the fire None shall resist thy Church and be innocent No man fighteth against her without foile he dasheth his fist against a Rocke Her enemies shall licke the dust of her feete and those which oppugned her kisse her steps Such as will not shall be called a reprobate company vvith vvhome thou wilt exercise eternall wrath Aboundance of blessinges vpon all them which honour her and curses eternally will followe them which vexe her Her loue and mercy is more then the tender hart of a Mother Her anger more to be feared then a Princes rage In her remayneth knowledge vvhich can not erre power vvhich may not be contradicted In her is the treasure of thy Sons merits reposed In her possession are the Keyes of thy heauenly Kingdome Thou art her teacher that shee may not be ignorant The holy Ghost is her sanctifier to preserue her from iniquity As the Moone from the Sunne fetcheth her light so is she illuminated from Christ her Spouse In her only dost thou raigne with magnificence in her only thou art to be found Not so the Sinagogue of the wicked not so the congregation of Heretikes Among whome as in his Kingdome sitteth the Prince of pride who hath dominion ouer all children of darknesse Presuming as though they were thy counsailors or as if the holy Ghost spake in their eare As though they were the lampes of the world with whome Religion was borne with whome it should die They say to the auncient Fathers hold your peace and to the Doctors of the Church we will teach you wisedome But their pride is more then their power for thou dwellest not in harts subject to sinfulnesse Swelling in cogitations of their harts they proudly tosse vp their heddes as vntamed coltes As childrē of Belial without yoke they challenge liberty without obedience Priestes they make to themselues for their newe lawe and put vpon them authority which they cannot giue Like Apostata children they haue made assemblies not in thy name begonne a webbe and not in thy spirit False Prophets sell them follies and lies and set cushions of ease vnder sinners elbowes For a little lucre they justifie the wicked vpon confidence of faith they assure saluation Peoples sores they close vvith a false skinne vvhen the vvound festreth they say all is well Eating in effect the peoples sinnes and cloathing themselues vvith their iniquities In steede of the supersubstantiall Bread of life they giue them Serpents for the Chalice of saluation poyson of Adders Making thee more vnjust then any Tyrant they teach that thou punishest all sinnes with equall payne And that vvithout difference of desertes thou rewardest all vvith equall glory They say thou canst not make thy Saints and Angels to vnderstand our prayers nor shewe to them thinges done in earth They foolishly say that thou wilt not haue vs honour thy friendes and that thou settest litle by their intercession Denying that vvhose sinnes the Church forgiueth are forgiuen in heauen they say thou canst not giue such authority to man Doubting of thy Omnipotency they say with the Capharnaits howe can Christ giue vs his body for food With the faithlesse they sticke not to say his wordes are hard and who can beleeue him His promise of being vvith his Church to the end of the vvorld they contemne And that the Holy Ghost shall teach her all truth they credit not Wanting the band of vnity vnder seuerall heades they make seuerall companies and sects Hauing no certayne rule of faith each is author of his owne beliefe framing a Religion by priuate fancy Both in Doctrine and life all disorder is among them eternall horrour and confusion Oh with how great difference most supereminent light hast thou seperated Israell from the Aegyptians So plaine hast thou made the high way of truth that a very foole neede not misse the path Our enemies giue testimony to our faith and confesse that we may be saued therein They which oppugne it doe justifie it in confessing the primitiue Doctors to haue erred with vs. And thy Church not vnmindefull of her great priuiledge nor vngratefull for thy benefits Honoureth thee alwaies with inward purity worthy of thy holines and with outward ornaments worthy of thy Majesty Seauen times in the day shee singeth thy prayses and prayeth for Catholikes throughout the world Heare her prayers O enemy of falshood and giue all the earth to vnderstand That Heresie is a tempest raging only for a time but the foundation of thy Church endureth for euer A PSALME WHEREIN THE CATHOLIKE CALleth to minde his conuersion giuing thankes to God for the same THE SIXT PSALME MEDITATE O my soule a newe song open my lips to a psalme of thanksgiuing Rejoyce in him that made thee rejoyce in him that redeemed thee Rejoyce in him that conserueth thee rejoyce in him that

the noyse of newe opinions their manners drew infection from the weakenesse of their faith When they sawe the theefe they followed him to be partaker of his pray They joyned shot with the adulterous generation furthered their proceedinges And eating with vncircūcised persons mingled themselues with those which thou hast strictly forbidden They learned their workes they suckt in their opinions and stumbled to their vtter ruine They found in their conuersation the scandall of Balam eating drinking and fornication Thy Nazarites were prouoked to violate their vowes and inuited to meates renounced Way was by liberty made open to intrusion of a newe beliefe and men vaunted their proper inuentions to be thy word Blessed is the memory and euerlasting is the glory of the shepherds which looked well to their charge at the time of Apostasie For the brightnesse of Israell was not quite put out but that many lampes gaue their accustomed light Rather choosing triumphantly to loose their liues then by yealding to betray their flocke Cursed for euer are those Prelates and Pastors not worthy the name of subjectes and sheepe Who either slept while the Diuell sowed his cockle O eternall reproach or like dumbe dogges bayed not when they sawe the wolfe Idols stockes not trusty watchmen who sawe the sword comming and gaue no warning But wonne with reward or amazed with feare suffered soules to be seduced The Prince frowning and commaunding his lawes to be obserued for Gods truth They staggered as men dronke all their wisdome and learning was gone with a word Holding downe their heades as degenerate shrinking as rammes that had lost their hornes In steede of denouncing to people their daunger and deterring them from iniquity They themselues yealded GODS honour to man and augmented the scandall by their example Great was the multitude which swaying with the time did cut off themselues from the body of Christendome The earth vvas infected vvith the pride thereof and the aire detested so great abhomination The elementes were defiled with continuall sacrileges the bloud of the Saintes cryed vengeance Angry vvast thou vvith those which were once thy beloued people and disclaymedst from England as none of thine inheritance Also deliueredst vp therefore the faint-harted shepherdes vvith their flockes to the handes of their mortall enemies Thy Sacrifice was taken from an vnworthy generation thy Ceremonies were abolished Vnder name of diuine seruice were obtruded newe rites for thy Sonnes body a bare peece of bread The table and cup of Diuels was thrust vpon the people with prayers thereunto belonging Blasphemies heresies were proclaymed for Gospell and all mens mouths opened against heauen England ah vngratefull England forgate thee the liuing God and felt the curse of hauing a child to her King Thus the bournes became desert and a batefull land turned to a soure soile Catholike faith here first planted vvhich neither Saxons altered nor Dane abolished Which the Normans rejected not which so many ages had not vvorne out Was nowe at last in a most infortunate age corrupted chaunged destroyed And our Nation after a thousand of yeares Apostated from thy faith to the vvhich it vvas first conuerted Yet remembring thy former mercies thou didst dissolue at last this heauy yoake Sending a Debora vvhich judged Israell in peace and tranquillity and repared the late ruines But too soone thou tookest her away for the vnworthinesse of her subjectes Quickly was thy goodnesse forgotten the Realme returning to her vomit Thou pouredst forth therefore thine indignation in aboundance kindledst all thy wrath to the full Thou gauest vs ouer to our owne inuentions suffering vs vvith full saile to make our course Our sinnes deserued no lesse yet vvhat could thy vvrath doe more extreame The Nobility to their owne vtter extirpation shamefully forsooke their Bishops without assistance Who constantly in defence of the Church pined all in durance and perished one by one The common sort went vniuersally to the golden Calues and at the commaunders voice bowed their knees to Baall Sincere Christians fled from Babilon least they should be plunged in her iniquities Thou determinedst in thy wrathfull fury to cast of England for euermore To let it runne to the bottomelesse pit and neuer to recall it to the faith But a Moyses stood vp before thee entreating for his comfortlesse country Appeasing thy wrath thou saidst vnto him prepare thy selfe to be my instrument For I will reare vp a newe generation of Priestes and people They vvhich so easily forsooke me in time of tentation shall not enter into the land of promise Forthwith didst thou puruey in a straunge lande a receptacle for thy people a refuge for thy persecuted Choosing out such as it pleased thee of whome to frame vessels of honour Many thou drewst to thy seruice by whome the Diuell wished to set forth his owne glory As diligent bees they gathered hony in aboundance for succour of their distressed Country Being deliuered like Israelites out of the fornace of Aegipt and called like Abraham from house and kindred Thou inspiredst them vvith desire of conuerting soules and sentest them in due season of thy haruest Vnder banner of a second Gregory they aduentured the second conuersion of their Nation Opposing thēselues to the streame of the time hope against hope was their comfort As thou gauest them learning which their aduersaries can not resist so constancy which they can not ouercome They purchased soules by their Doctrine and confirmed them by seale of their bloud Springes of health were opened from all coastes men sought helpe of their maladies The cause waxed famous men beganne to lift vp their eyes and flowe to the Church apace Sound of the Catholike faith pearced through the Island and none can anie more pleade ignorance Darknesse stroue to repell light not able to endure the glimps thereof The Diuell armed himselfe with furie to maintayne his KINGDOME feelinge the foundation thereof to tremble Rigourous lawes were made and executed with all extreamity Worse and worse daylie added seuerity finding neither end nor measure In these tearmes of contradiction O ineffable Majesty standeth thou seest our miserable Britany Who by this time hadst thou not sent supply had become worse then Sodome and Gomorrha Iniquity hath ingendred impiety and want of faith hath brought forth double iniquity Ah thou eldest Daughter of Sion howe is thy beauty faded Howe miserable is nowe the land wont to be so happy and fortunate The Lady of Isles is become like a perilous rocke which farre and neere is shunned for danger of shipwracke Or as a cursed quick-sand infamous through destruction of many passengers swallowed The chiefe of Prouinces is become the basest the most Religious turned to most sacrilegious Woe to a sinnefull people whose burden is iniquity Woe to an Apostatrice nation who like an Harlot hath broaken her faith From the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote shee is full of sores and maladies Who is able to